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Rhubarb Collection

Rhubarb is an invaluable crop, providing fantastic puddings at the leanest times of year. If you grow the right succession of varieties, which is exactly what you get with this collection, you can pick it from the garden from March until August. More

3 crowns, for spring planting400040-3

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Rhubarb is an invaluable crop, providing fantastic puddings at the leanest times of year. If you grow the right succession of varieties, which is exactly what you get with this collection, you can pick it from the garden from March until August.

As the last of the pears and apples get eaten, rhubarb takes over and gives us delicious things for pudding until the strawberries start. And it grows happily with some shade.

This collection includes full planting and care instructions and a recipe sheet along with 3 x 2 year old crowns (1 each of):

Rhubarb 'Timperley Early' – Crops March-May

Rhubarb 'Raspberry Red' – Crops March-June

Rhubarb 'Victoria' – Crops May-August

Genus

Rheum x hybridum

Variety

Raspberry Red,
Timperley Early,
Victoria

Type

Hardy Perennial

Common Name

Rhubarb

Scent

Unscented

Site

Full Sun, Part Shade

Moisture

Well-drained

Height

45-60cm (18-24in)

Spacing

100-120cm (40-48in)

Sowing, Seeds, Planting

Plant the crowns in a pot and grow them - with a bit of TLC - for about a month until the roots have filled the pot well.

Care Tips

Don't harvest anything in the first season. Just mulch your plants - not too close to the crown - and let them grow and establish themselves well. Simply allow the sticks of rhubarb to die back in the first autumn. Spread organic compost around the crown in its dormant winter phase. Grow in an area, which has not grown rhubarb in the last six years.

Storing

Can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks in a plastic bag, or can be frozen or stewed.

Harvesting

March - August. In the second season ie. about twelve to fourteen months after planting, you can pick some outdoor rhubarb. To harvest properly, you need to pick everything that the plants is providing. New growth will be being produced all the time and you must pick it, even if it's a tiny stick. If it's not worth cooking, put it onto compost heap. Don't leave it on the plant.

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